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a fancy to one of the leaders of a four-horse team. 

 The horse was turned over to him to train. He did 

 not do very well for Hickok, but in the hands of 

 Monroe Salisbury and Andy McDowell, he trotted 

 in 2:04%, and defeated Hulda, the fastest trotter 

 Hickok ever raced. The horse was Azote. 



The plough horse. Captain Lewis, 2:21, was the 

 greatest find on the trotting turf. Every one who 

 had him made money. In March, 1882, Colonel Par- 

 sons of Rochester, N. Y. turned him down at $175. 

 In April, A. H. Tower, of Lyons, N. Y. gave $300 

 for the gelding and sold him in June to Colonel 

 Parsons and Burt Sheldon for $5,250. He started in 

 ten races that year and won all of them, or in 

 other words made a sweep just as R. T. C, 2:06%, 

 the next plough horse, did in 1911. 



MISS WOERNER 



In 1929 when Walter Cox began winning races 

 with the fidgety three-year-old filly Miss Woerner by 

 The Laurel Hall, a glance over the breeding of her 

 dam that appeared on the score cards recalled a few 

 horses that had been before the public for a number 

 of years. Her name was Mary Coburn. She was one 

 of the last trotters that W. J. Andrews drove in 

 1919 after being on the retired list for four years 

 on account of a sunstroke at Syracuse the day he 

 won with Lee Axworthy. 



Mary Coburn was retired from the turf with a 

 record of 2:07l^. She was got by Manrico, a horse 



